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OR, A SAD LIFE STORY
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CHAPTER XI, so much time that Amelia herself has to
reduce to a minimum the moments al-
lotted to her. own toilette. She bas cried
a little with Sybilla, for company part-
ly, and partly out of weariness of spirit.
That and hurry : have swollen her eye-
lids and painted her cheeks with a hard,
tired red, so that it is an even more
homespun figure, and a homelier face
than, usual, that seat themselves oppo-
site Burgoyne, when at length they get
under weigh.
A reconciliation is seldom effected
without some price being paid for IL
Ji1n's with Elizabeth, if it can be called
such, is bought at the cost of a small
sacrifice of principle on his part. No
later than this morning he had laid
down as a Median rule, that he should
avoid opportunities of finding himself in
Miss Le Merchant's ".company; and yet,
not only has he spent the major part of
the afternoon in her society, but, as he
walks away from her door, he finds that
he has engaged himself to help Byug, on
no distant day, in doing the honors of
the Certosa Monastery, to her and her
mother. On reflection, he cannot quite
explain to himself how the arrange
ment has come about. The proposal
certainly did not originate with him, and
still less with the two ladies so strange-
ly shy of all society. The three have
somehow been swept into it by Byng,
who either with the noblest altruism, or
because lie feels justly confident that he
has no caul for jealousy of his friend
(Jinn's cynics reflection is that the latter
is the much more probable reason), has
insistedon drawing him' into the pro-
ject.
Jim Burgoyne is not a man whom, as
a rule, it is easy either to wile or cudgel
into any course that does not recom-
mend itself to his own judgment or
taste—a fact of which he himself is per-
fet fly aware, and which makes him re-
m' sefully acknowledge that there must
in Jed have been a traitor in the citadel
of iris own heart before he could have so
weakly yielded at the fust push to what
his reason sincerely disapproves. But
yet it is not true that remorse is the
leading feature of his thoughts, as he
walks silently beside his friend down the
Via di Servi. It ought to be, perhaps,
but it is not. The picture that holds the
foreground of his memory is that of
Elizabeth sitting on the floor, and send-
ing him peace -offerings from her pathe-
tic eyes and across her sensitive lips.
It was very sweet of her to think it
necessary to make him amends at all
for her trifling incivility, and nothing
could be sweeter than the manner of it.
How gladly would he buy some little
rudeness from her every day at such a
price! But yet, as he thinks it over, the
Manner of it, the ground on which she
rested her excuse, is surely a strange
one. That she should attribute her light
lapse from courtesy to want of know-
ledge of the world comes strangely from
the mouth of a. woman of six -and -
twenty. If it be true,—and there was a
naive veracity in lip and eye as she
spoke—how is it to be accounted for?
Flex her mind, has her experience of life
remained absolutely stationary during
the last ten years? Her teli-tale face,
over which some pensive story is so
plainly written, forbids the inference.
It is no business 01 his, of course.
Amelia, thank I•leaven, has no story ;
but, oh i if some one would tell him
what that history is 1 And yet, three
'days later, he voluntarily puts away
from himself the opportunity of hearing
During those three days he sees no
more of her. IIe does not again seek
her out, and accident does not throw
her in his way 14e buys his Cantagalli
dinner -service in company with Amelia;
chooses the soup -tureen out of which he
is to. Iadle mutton broth for the inhabi-
tants of Westbourne Grove; he tastes o1
the wedding -cake that has cost Cecilia
so dear, and he avoids Byng. On the
third day he can no longer avoid him,
since he is to occupy, as on the San
Militate occasion, the fourth seat. in the
nacre, which conveys himself and the
Misses Wilson to the garden -party at the
villa in Bellosguardo inhabited by Mr.'s.
Roche, the mother of the amiable Bartle.
The Wilsons' acquaintances in Florence
are few, and, as far as 13ur•goyne has at
present had the opportunity of judging,
eviL It is, therefore, with a proportion-
eite elation that Cecilia dresses for a
party at which she will meet the bulk,
or at least the cream, of the English
society. It is to t3yng's good nature
that she and her sister owe the intro
duction to a hostess whose acquaintance
is already too large to mated her eager
-for any causeless addition to it; but
whose hand has been forced by Byng,
in the mistaken idea that he is. doing a
service to his friend j'im.
They are late in setting off, as Amelia
is delayed by the necessity of soothing
Sybilla, who has been reduced to bitter
tears by a tete-a-tete withher tattler, in
which that wet -intentioned but incau-
tious gentleman has been betrayed into
suggesting to her ttro•t she may possibly
be suffering from biliousness. The cd -
ministering of broriiide, to calm her
nerves under such a shock ; the reiter-
ated as.surances that every member of
The family asaerit,its head realizes the
monstrosity at the Suggestion, take up
He, Burgoyne, has been impatient of
the delay, impatient to set off and to
arrive; yet he would be puzzled to say
why. IIe knows, on no less authority
than her own word, that he shall not
meet Elizabeth; and yet the mere feel-
ing that the mistress of the house to
which he is going is of the same blood
as she; that he shall see the rude,
spoilt child whose ill-tempered pinch
made her utter that low cry of pain,
suffice to give a tartness to his tone, as
he inquires the cause of her lagging, of
the panting, flushed, apologetic Amelia.
Byng and Cecilia have been silting
waiting for some time in the salon,
from which Sybilla has removed her
prostrate figure and tear -stained face ;
but they have been entertaining each
other so well—she in paying him a
series of marked attentions, and he in
civilly and pleasantly accepting them—
that the half-hour has not seemed long
to either. But the party, in motion at
last, has passed the Roman Gate, and is
climbing up and up between the high
walls, each step giving it a. greater
vantage ground over the Flower -City,
before Burgoyne recovers his equani-
mity.
The spring comes on apace. In the
gardens above their heads laurestinus
bushes, with all their flowers out (as
they are never seen in England, where
always the east wind nips half the little
round buds before they can expand into
blossom), stand in white and green ;
rosemary trees, covered with grey
bloom, hang down; and against the
azure of the high heaven purple irises
stand up arow. It is one of those days
on which ono can with bodily eyes see
the Great Mother at her quickening
work; can see her flushing the apple
boughs, unfolding the fig -leaves, and
driving the lusty green blood through
the sappy vines. And in the slow creep-
ing of the 'nacre up the twisting white
road, each turn lays the divine Tuscan
city before them in some new aspect of
arresting loveliness.
At Florence. one is like Balaam with
the Israelites One is taken to see from
one point after another, each point
seeming fairer than the last; but the
likeness ends there, for no wish to curse
the sweet town could ever arise in even.
the morosest heart. The hills have put
on their summer look of dreamy warmth
and distance. Before they have reached
the hill -top, the boon •Italian air has
kissed most of the ereases out of,Jim's
temper,' and the brick -red from Amelia's
cheekbones. He looks remorsefully from
the triumphant beauty around into the
poor, fond face opposite to him looks
at her with a sort of compassion for be-
ing so unlovely, mixed with a Com-
punctious admiration and tenderness
for her gentle qualities. He may touch
her hand without fear of observation,
se wholly is Byng enveloped in the
mantle of Cecilia's voluble tenderness.
"Haveyou forgiven me?" he asks,
��
smiling; I will make any apologies, eat
any dirt, say anything, short of allow-
ing that Sybilla is not bilious."
They have reached the. villa, and
turned out of the dusty highway into a
great cool courtyard, that has a Moore
isle look,. with its high arches, over
which the Banksia roses tumble in cas-
eades of yellow and ,white: It seems
wrong that the voices which opine from
the tea -tables under the Loggia should
be chattering English or Yankee, in-
stead of cooing that "sweet bastard
Latin" that better suits place and day.
Tho hostess shakes hands absently
with Burgoyne, offers his fair charges
iced coffee, and then, having discharged
her conscience towards then, draws.
Byng away for an intimate chat. From
her 'lends he passes into those of sev-
eral other willing matrons and maids,
and it seems likely that the . party who
brought him will see him no more;
Amelia, Unused to, and, unexpeetant of
alfentipn; is perfectly content to sit
silent, sipping her cold coffee; but Ce-
cilia is champing her bit in a woy which
frightens her future brother-in-law so
much that he cowardly takes the oppor=
tunny of her looking in another direct-
tion to lure Jus docile fiance on to the
broad terrace, whence all the young
green glory of the Arno's plain, and
the enrpurplecl slopes and dreamful
lamest of. Morello, are to be seen by the
looker's beauty -drunk eye. Upon this
terrace many people :are walking and
sitting in twos and threes, and in one of
the little groups. Amelia presently die -
covers a ,female aeeluainiunce, who at.
once fastens upon her, and happenings
to be =toted, with, a relative visited by
a disorder of-80melMng the same na-
tura a$ Sybillees, subjects her to a
searching and exhaustive catcthism as
Le the no lure .of be sister's syniptouis.
Sybitltes symptoms, whether at first or
second hand, have izivariably: the pro
petty, of driving Tiin into desert places ;
and, in the present Instance, seeing no
likelihood of an..end tothe :relation, of
thein, he turns impatiently away, and,,
without much thought of where ho is
going, follows a steep downward path
that enols in a descent of old stone stops,
between whose crevices green: plants
and little Hawkweed blow -balls flourish
undisturbed, to a large 'square wall,
framed by a loin broad parapet, with
flower beds set around it, and the whole
(dosed fn by rugged stone walls, No
one apparently has bacl the same im-
pulse as lie, for, at first, helms the cool
solitude to himself, Ile sits down on
the parapet of the still well, and drops
in pebbles to see how deep the water is;
and anon is lifts t h idle look 1- to the empty.
i
pY
niches in the crumbling wall -niches
where once wood -god;; or water -nymph,
or rural Pan stood in stone, now empty
and forsaken, Out of the wall two
ilexes grow, and lift themselves against
the sapphire arch, which yet is no sap-
phire, nor of any name that belongs to
cold stone; a blue by which all othc_•
blues are butfeeble colorless ghosts of
that dlvinest tint,
lie is roused from the : vague reverie
into which the cool silence fillet the
brooding beauty around have lulled him
by the sound of approaching.voices. Ho
is not to have his well any longer to
himself.' He looks up with: that scarcely
latent hostility in his eye with which
ane regards the sudden intruder...lnto a
railway carriage, when -counting ori
keeping it to oneself for a long night
journey—one has -diffused limbs and
parcels over its whole area. The owners
of the voices having descended, as Ile
had done, the age -worn steps, come into
sight. They are both *Men, and one of
them he recognizes at once as a Mr.
Greenock, a well-known stock figure in
Florentine society, a mature bachelor
diner -out, a not ill-natured retailer of
news, collector of bons -mats, and harm-
less appendageof pretty nwoinen. Of
the other, at whom he scarcely glances,
all ho grasps is the fact that he is dress-
ed in clerical attire, and that the first
words audible of bis speech, as he comes
within hearinn,is the name of an Eng-
lish county—Devonshire. The answer
comes in a tone of keen interest
"Ali, I thought there must be a screw
loose l"
As the new arrivals become aware of
the presence of a third person, they
pause in their talk; but, presently Mr.
Greenock having recognized Jim and
g,veeted frim with a friendly nod and a
trivial reinaik upon the splendor of the
'day, they resume 'their interrupted
theme; standing together a few yards
distant from him on the wake, resume it
iii a rather lower but • still perfectly
audible key,
"I thought there must be some reason
for their shutting themselves up so re-
solutely," continues Mr. Greenock in the
„ratified tone of one whoehes a:.1, length
solved a long -puzzling kiddie. "I
thought that there must be a screw
loose, in fact; but are you quite sure of
it?"
The other gives a sigh and a shrug.
"Unfortunately there can be no doubt
on that head ; the whole lamentable
occurrence took place under my own
eyes; the Moat is in my parish.".
"Devonshire!" "A screw loose!" "The
Moat!" Burgoyne is still sitting on the
well -brim; but he no longer sees the
lapis vault above, nor the placid dark
water below. A sort of horrible mist is
swimming before his eyes; it is of Mize -
beth le Marchant that they are speak-
ing. Through that mist he snatches a
scare( look at the speaker at him whom
but two minutes ago he had glanced at
with such cursory carelessness, Does he
recognize him? Alas ! yes. Though
changed by the acquisition of a bald
head and a grizzled beard, he sees him
at once to be the man who, at the time
of his own acquaintance with the Le
Marchant family, had filled the office of
vicar of their parish; under whom he
had sat on several drowsy summer Sun-
day mornings, trembling at the boys'.
perilous antics ;fn the great curtained.
pew, and laughing inwardly at . Eliza-
beth's mirth -struggling efforts tocon
trot'them.
"And you say that they never held up
their heads again afterwards ?" pursues
Mr. Greenock, in a tone.of good-natured
compassion, that is yet largely tinged
with gratified curiosity.
"'they left the neighborhood at once,"
returns the clergyman. •"Dear me, how
time flies! it must be ten years ago now,
and. I never saw them again until:I met
the unhappy girl and her mother yes-
terday, driving -in the Via Tornabuoni;
but"—lowering his voice a little more—
"you will understand that this is strictly
entre nous; ,that it must go no further."
"What do you think I am made of ?"
cries Mr. Greenock in a burst of gener-
ous indignation; "but" stepping a pace
or two nearer to his interlocutor "I am
not quite sure that I have got the details
of the story right; would you mind just
running it over to me again?"
Tim has been sitting in such a stunned
stillness that it is perhaps no wonder.
that .they have forgotten his neighbor-
hood. At all events the. clergyman IS,
evidently about to comply with his coin=
panion's request and recapitulate the
late. If Jim preserves ,his motionless.
attitude but five minutes longer, he will
be put into possession of that story
whose existence he has already heavily
conjectured, and the imagining of
which has made him often, within the
"last week or two, turn with nausea from
his food, and toss restlessly upon his
bed. Without any trouble on his part,
without any possible blame attaching to
him, he will learn the poor soul's•se-
cret. Never 1 If the devil wish to tempt
hint with et prospect of success, it must
be with a less unhandsome bait: AI-
most before the two startled scandal-
mongers have recalled the fact of his
existence by 'the abrupt noise of his de.
parture, he is half -way back to the ter.
race, drat mist still before his eyes, and
a singing in his eats.
(To be continued).
The love of wealth steals wealth of
lave.
SOVFRF!GN
To tho Shareholders,
BAS
or CANAtA
oFFICE 01' THE 2nd VICE-1t:1ic.SII3Ial`t'd' AND GENERAL MANAGER:
Montreal, 10th November, 1000.
The Sovereign Bank of Canada.
We have pleasure in enclosing herewith stat
ending 3ist October, together ement of the Bank's position as at the close of the fiscal halt -year,
, i tole rer with comparative statistics for the past five years. The figures require no special expla-
nation, and We feel sure theprogress and stability which they indicate will afford the proprietors and friends of Me
Bank complete satisfaction,
Tile Bank's American and Foreign business has now attained considerable importance. Our conneotions abroad,
as well as our facilities at home, enable us to handle British, Continental and American transactions- entrusted to us
cc a favorable basts, and the results :,o farhave been .satisfactory to all concerned,
Our principal business is, of course, confined to Canada, and is concentrated In the provinces of Ontario and Quebec,
which long experience has proven to he the safest territory in the Dominion for the conduct of a general and 0001
mercial banking business. In these two provinces the Bank has 55'branch es and 22 sub -offices, the latter being
managed from central points, 400 in .some instances open only two or three clays a week. We have not yet opened
an
branches C3''
Y Gh in1
tieo•
N z ilk -W ,
est, as competition there seems to be uzrltsttaltY Leen, but with the undoubted progress`
which the country is making, these conditions will probably right themselves later on, and in the meantime we have
very satisfactory blinking arrangements for the conduct of cion business throughout that territory.
Tho capital of the Bank ($4,000;000) will be fully paid upin a few months, and it is a source of great satisfaction
to know that our shareholders number nearly 1,200 and include some of the most powerful financial people in the
world:
The Sovereign Rank is at present the eighth largest chartered bank in Canada in point of capital. Its assets
amount to 825,343,401, a large part if which ; are . "liquid," and the continued growth of deposits testifies to the popu-
larity of tht institution throughout '110 country.
The Note Circulation shows an ad vance of 83 per cent, aver last year, and both the Circulation and Doposits'havo
increased materially since the present statement was compiled.
year
Thweill pastbe at halleastf yearas goois the
d. 'bast the Bank has ever had, and we have every reason to think that the current half
Your obedient servant,
D. M. STEWART,
General Manager.
HALF -YEARLY STATEMENT
31st October, 190.6.
LIAI3lLITIES.
Capital Stock paid-up ...„ $3,042,710.03
Reserve Fund and Undivided
Profits .
• 1,335,8.17.22
Notes of the Bank in cir- $ $5,278,557.22
culation .,. ..,
Deposits Payable .on De-
mand . • 2,850,675.00Deposits 1 • •T• - 85,685,32:1.09
Payable after No-
tice . ..... 9,893,598.66 -
15,578,919.75
Other Liabilities
.••. •••• ........ 1,635,249.15
ASSETS
Gold and Silver Coin on
Dominion Government Notes
. on hand ..
Notes and Cheques of
,other Banks
Balances with Bankers
$25,343,401.12
$ 538,989.53
1,121,447.00
1,155,304.09
1,101,101.00
Cash Assets .. 23,9.16,842.57
Cash Deposited with Do-
minion Government for
Security of Note Circula-
tion- .....
Provincial Government and
other Securities .. -.
Call and Short Loans Se-
cured by Bonds, etc.:...
Commercial Loans, (less re-
bate of interest) . ..•$14,640,510.40
Bank Premises, Real Es-
tate, Safes, etc. . .. 473,837.57
Other Assets .... .... .... 5,312 42
80,000.00
1,612,831.16
4,614,067.00
$1.0,223,740.73
15,119;660.39
$25,3.3,401.12
D. M. STEWART,
Gen eral Manager.
COMPARATIVE STATISTICS
31st
Octo-
ber
1902
1003
1904
1905
1906
Capital
Paid-up
$1,173,478
1,300,000
1,300,000
1,610,478
3,942,710
LIAnJLITf ES.
Reserve Fund
and Sovereign
Undivided. Bank Notes Deposits.
Profits ;n .,Circulation.
$ 240,000
362,838
420,373
523,461
1,335,847
y 759,995
1,237,650
1,234,540
1,550,700
2,550,675
$ 1,681,730
4,309,432
'7,190,741
10,134,209
15,578,920
31st Cash on Hand
Octo- and
ber at Bankers
1002 $ 383,007
1903 622,774
1904 1,214,822
1905 - 1,491,393
1906 3,916,342
ASSETS.
Bonds
Debentures, Loans at
etc. Call
$ 4439,363 21,630,199
'713,397 1,747,342
672,034 1,179.540
791,153 1,561,144
1,612,831. 4,614,067
Commercial
Loans
and Discounts
$ 1.358,469
4,074,048
7,014,123
9,578.850
14,640,5.10
81st
Octo-
ber
Total Assets
GENERAL.
Excess of
Assets over
Liabilities
to the Public
1902 $ 3,855,203 $1,413,478
1003 7,209,920 1,662,838
1904 10,201,954 1,720,373 _
1905 ., 13,818,938 2,133,939
1906 25,343,401 5,278,557
N. B. This Bank commenced D:
business lst May, 1902.
Branches and No. of
Sub-ofilces Shareholde a
y
17
23
42
53
78
757
819
854
1004
1195
M STEWART,
General Manager.
SEA BOOTS.
Sceptical Crowd Watches Successful.
Water Walking Trial.
The possibility of walking on the water
was successfully demonstrated at Ten -
by. England, by a Royal Naval Reserve
pensioner named William Henry Lle-
wellyn, who has devoted several years
to the subject.
The inventor's equipment was a pair
of lightly constructed canvas boots,
with waders resembling those of the
angler. The boots are about five feet
inlength, and sharply pointed' at the
toes, and to one of them is attached
a large rudder, controlled by means of
steering lines hitched to the walker's
waist.
To the bottom of each boot is fixed
fir series of cross -bars, for balancing
purposes, and the walker has the fur-
ther assistance of ” a long pole.
The demonstration was given in the
presence of a sceptical crowd on the
Tenby marshes, large portions of which
are now under water in consequence
of the recent heavy rains. Mr. Llewel-
lyn glided rather than walked, a dis-
tance of about a hundred yards, at a
rate probably of about two miles an
hour. More than once there seemed a
possibility of a turn -over, but the in-
.ventor successfully maintained his equi-
librium.
Mr. Llewellyn claims that though
there are several improvements which
ha might make in his appartus, he has
effectually solved the problem of water
walking. His son has also invented a
water-walldng machine, and recently
gave a demonstration off the Royal Vic-
toria Pier at Tenby.
HONORED IW THE KING.
The Albert Medal for :Gallantry Con -
/erred on Mr. Leslie Urquhart.
Mr.,. Leslie Urquhart (his Majesty'sVice-Consul at Baku) had the honor of
being received by King.Edward at Buck-
ingham Palace -recently, . When .his
Majesty conferred upon him the Albert
medal for gallantry, which is thus de-
scribed in the Court Circular :
"During the disturbances at Baku, in
September, 1905, four Englishmen' were
sur ounded by insurgents at Zabrat, the
headquarters in Balachani of the Baku
Russian Company, and were 'in immi-
nent danger of losing their lives. The
four Englishmen had already been iso-
lated for some time when news of their
perilous position reached the British
Embassy at St. Petersburg, and Mr.
Urquhart, accompanied by two Cossacks
and several Tartars from the village of
Mushtagee, started to relieve the be-
leaguered men.
"The district was full of armed Tar-
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tars, and in such a stale of unrest that,
when Mr. Urquhart started upon his ex-.
pedition it was not expected by the red
mainder of the British colony in Baku
that he would live to .return.
"On the night of his departure Mr.
Urquhart proceeded to a farm which het
possessed in the neighborhood, where het
hoped to be able to get help from hist
own farm hands, who were Tartars, and
also,to collect supplies; but notwith-
staning that the party was stopped ands
fired on from time to time the supplies.
were collected, and a start was made,
early the next morning for Balachani.
' "Mr. Urquhart's courageous and spon-
taneous action was rewarded with suc-
cess: He got through and . found that
four Englishmen in a dreadful condi-t
tion, especially on account of water, and!
after feeding them he persuaded them to
go with him in carts which he hadl
brought, with as many, Armenians as
they could take with them. Immediately
afterwards the. whole of the buildings)
were carried by storm, and everyonei
found therein put to death.
AERIAL .NOAfi'S ARK.
Remarkable Three -decker Flying Ma.
chine to Soar Like Bird. ,.
A house that will take the air like a
bird, flap gigantic wings, and shape its
course q,ccording to the pleasure of the
Irian in the conning tower, is the latest
variation of the flying machine.
The enormous three -decker of which
these marvels are prophesied lies in a.
field off Sydney road, New Southgate,
England. .The. superstructure is com-
pleted, and only the wings and the
motor that is to flap them remains to
be constructed.• Windows and doors
have been fitted perfectly, while the in-
terior with its three storeys and slights
of 'stains, is. striking and comfortable
Over the top of all rises 'the conning
tower, with a railed -.in space from which
the skipper can direct operations, The
second floor is for four engines, each of
25 horse -power, The geound floor will
accommodate 100 passengers.
The persons respons.ihio for this house
that may fly are three, French engineers,
who anticipate making a short trial trip
from New Southgate . to Paris late in
the °eiming year.. The machine has been
constructed from plans drawn by Del-
part, of Paris, who devoted many years
and a largo fortune to the invention.
He died before operations began, and
his place has been taken by M. Jodclled.
Don't, got discOnraged. No man !(
really down and out.. until, the under-'
taker gets busy, !
Often a man crests a shadow over
lir.5 charitable acts by talking • about
them. ,